Since leaving Black Marble Iain is blogging at http://sixfortyfour.wordpress.com

Between writing the previous post about provisioning Managed Metadata fields declaratively we decided to remove the hard-coded term store name shown below var termStore = session.TermStores["Managed Metadata Service"]; and replace it with TermStore termStore = session.DefaultSiteCollectionTermStore; We found …

As part of a project I have been working on we wanted to assign categories to items in SharePoint 2010 and decided to use Managed Metadata. Wictor Wilén has a good post explaining what Managed Metadata is and how to set it up. Like Wictor, I also prefer to provision site columns and content types using a combination of …

Many thanks to everyone who came to Newcastle to see my talk on WCF Data Services, managed to get through all my demos by overrunning a little bit! I’d also like to thank Ben, Jonathon and Damien for their hospitality and help. NEBytes is great user group and I’d recommend anyone who can attend to do so. During the …

Big thank you to everyone who attended my talk on WCF Data Services, and a big thank you to the organisers for another excellent event.

After updating the TFS 2010 client from Beta2 to RC on my SharePoint development machine I found that I couldn’t control IIS using IISRESET, with a message usually of the following format… Attempting stop… Stop attempt failed. The system cannot find the file specified. (214794202, 80070002) As anyone who does …

I signed up for the Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special. You get 25 hours of a small compute instance per month which is more than enough for my current development needs. I checked the billing after a couple of days and was surprised to see that I had used 4 hours of compute time. I'd only deployed a test …

To coincide with commercial launch the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio have been updated... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5664019e-6860-4c33-9843-4eb40b297ab6&displaylang=en The Azure Team blog has a post on what is new... …

On my SharePoint 2007 W2K8 development VM, I noticed that "Open with Windows Explorer" wasn't working. Aha, I thought, I'll just go and start the WebClient service, which is what you did on W2K3. Turns out you need to add the "Desktop Experience" feature to add the WebClient service. Hey ho.

I've been working on deploying SharePoint MasterPages and PageLayouts as a feature. There are a lot of good posts out there on how to do this. Everything went ok, the feature deployed and activated fine, the page was approved and I could specify the masterpage to be used. I checked to see how the site looked and all …